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And now that you have seen a really evil man, you will know how evil they can be and you will go after them to destroy them in order to protect yourself and the people you love. You won't wait to argue about it. You know what they look like now and what they can do to people.
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In the background there thudded always the hidden metronome of the Casino, ticking up its little treasure of one-per-cents with each spin of a wheel and each turn of a card - a pulsing fat-cat with a zero for a heart.
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Ian Fleming |
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There was no sign of life round the domed emplacement of the Moonraker, and the concrete, already beginning to shimmer in the early morning sun, stretched emptily away towards Deal. It looked like a newly laid aerodome or rather, he thought, with its three disparate concrete 'things', the beehive dome,the flat-iron blast-wall, and the distant cube of the firing point, each casting black pools of shadow towards him in the early sun, like a D..
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missile
dali
weapon
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Garch ahar?
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In the centre of Bond was a hurricane-room, the kind of citadel found in old-fashioned houses in the tropics. These rooms are small, strongly built cells in the heart of the house, in the middle of the ground floor and sometimes dug down into its foundations. To this cell the owner and his family retire if the storm threatens to destroy the house, and they stay there until the danger is past. Bond went to his hurricane room only when the si..
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fate
hurricane-room
flying
plane
safety
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Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from somewhere down in the stomach of the world.
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sulphur
smell
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The bitch is dead.
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Ian Fleming |
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Even the highest tree has an axe waiting at its foot.
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Ian Fleming |
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People are so damn sensitive about colour around here that you can't even ask a barman for a jigger of rum. You have to ask for a jegro.
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Ian Fleming |
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All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards their goal. The great scientists, the artists, the philosophers, the religious leaders - all maniacs. What else but a blind singleness of purpose could have given focus to their genius, would have kept them in the groove of their purpose? Mania, my dear Mister Bond, is as priceless as genius. Dissipation of energy, fragmentation of vision, loss..
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Ian Fleming |
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Mister. Nothing is forever. Only death is permanent. Nothing is forever except what you did to me.
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Ian Fleming |
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clean-shaven and dressed in the conventional disguise with which Brooks Brothers cover the shame of American millionaires.
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Ian Fleming |
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Only law firm out there's called Smith and Wesson.
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Ian Fleming |
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It was a room-shaped room with furniture-shaped furniture, and dainty curtains.
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Ian Fleming |
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A scar had been beaten into his mind which would only heal by experience.
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depression
faith
posttraumatic-stress-disorder
spiritual-warfare
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I prefer to regard myself as one who has the ability and the mental and nervous equipment to make his own laws and act according to them rather than accept the laws that suit the lowest common denominator of the people.
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Now that little problem of yours, this business of not knowing good men from bad men and villains from heroes and so forth...There's still plenty for you to do. And you'll do it. And when you fall in love and have a mistress or a wife and children to look after, it will all seem easier." He opened the door but stopped on the threshold. "Surround yourself with human beings, my dear. They are easier to fight for than principles." He laughed. ..
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principals
james-bond
machine
evil
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Because people are very careful with the secrets of their own business doesn't mean that they'll be careful with the secrets of yours.
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Ian Fleming |
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You must forgive me,' he said. 'I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It comes partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a habit of taking a lot of trouble over details. It's very pernickety and old-maidish really, but then when I'm working I generally have to eat my meals alone and it makes them more interesting when one takes trouble.
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Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds, for, at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.
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Ian Fleming |
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I decided on moustaches.
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Ian Fleming |
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ALTHOUGH HE had not got to bed until two, Bond walked into his headquarters punctually at ten the next morning.
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Ian Fleming |
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In my job,' he said, 'when I come up against a man like this one, I have another motto. It's "live and let die"."
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Ian Fleming |
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Suspiciously Bond walked over and examined the screws which secured the panel to
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Ian Fleming |
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I don't care the hell what other people eat so long as they enjoy it. I can't stand sad eaters and sad drinkers.
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Ian Fleming |
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Darling, the bath's absolutely right. Will you marry me?' She snorted. 'You need a slave, not a wife.
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Ian Fleming |
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I expect because I think I can handle life better on my own. Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
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Ian Fleming |
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Bond awoke in his own room at dawn and for a time he lay and stroked his memories.
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Ian Fleming |
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What an extraordinary difference there was between a body full of a person and a body that was empty! Now there is someone, now there is no one.
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Ian Fleming |
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Ah hears tings which Ah don' like at all. Cain't say much. Get mahself 'n plenty trouble. But yuh all want to watch yo step plenty good. Yassuh.
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Ian Fleming |
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Push dem under the doors,' he said. 'Ah cain't do nuthen else. Git mah throat cut. But Ah don' like any foolin' aroun' wid da customers 'n my cyar. Nossuh.
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Ian Fleming |
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the moustaches on the men were just a lot of moustaches.
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Ian Fleming |
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I am allergic to almost every form of international agency, conference or committee.
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Ian Fleming |
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One Saturday, he had gone to take the subway to Pennsylvania Station en route for the Soviet week-end rest camp at Glen Cove, the former Morgan estate on Long Island.
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Ian Fleming |
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You are linked to the ground mechanic's careless fingers in Nassau just as you are linked to the weak head of the little man in the family saloon who mistakes the red light for the green and meets you head-on, for the first and last time, as you are motoring quietly home from some private sin. There's nothing to do about it. You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy. ..
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Ian Fleming |
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Ever heard of "The House of Diamonds"?"
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Ian Fleming |
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And then there was this pest of a girl. He sighed. Women were for recreation. On a job, they got in the way and fogged things up with sex and hurt feelings and all the emotional baggage they carried around. One had to look out for them and take care of them.
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Ian Fleming |
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Bond sat down and looked across into the tranquil, lined sailor's face that he loved, honoured and obeyed.
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Ian Fleming |
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Certainly, Effendi,' the man bowed Bond to the lift. 'But alas the plumbers are in your former room. The water supply . . .' the voice trailed away. The lift rose about ten feet and stopped at the first floor. Well, the story of the plumbers makes sense, reflected Bond. And, after all, there was no harm in having the best room in the hotel.
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Ian Fleming |
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Bond again walked round the room. This time he carefully inspected the walls and the neighbourhood of the bed and the telephone. Why not take the room? Why would there be microphones or secret doors? What would be the point of them?
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Ian Fleming |
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He asked nothing better than to kill an Englishman. He had accounts to settle with the bastards.
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Ian Fleming |
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They paddled easily, in unison, the paddles turning in their hands so that they did not leave the water on the forward stroke. The small waves slapped softly against the bows. Otherwise they made no noise. It was dark. Nobody saw them go. They just left the land and went off across the sea.
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Ian Fleming |
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Bond mistrusted anyone who tied his tie with a Windsor knot. It showed too much vanity. It was often the mark of a cad. Bond
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Ian Fleming |
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You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death.
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Ian Fleming |